Challenge West Virginia

February 4, 2012

Challenge West Virginia is a statewide organization of parents, educators and other West Virginians committed to maintaining and improving small community schools. Our goal is to reform education in the Mountain State so that citizens have a voice in policy decisions and every child has the opportunity to receive a first-class education and the promise of a bright future.

TOTAL TITLE I FUNDING PER ELIGIBLE CHILD, 2008-09 SCHOOL YEAR

Data source: U.S. Department of Education, Revised SY0809 Title I Allocation data file.

Rural students receive, on average, less funding per eligible student through the federal Title I program, which is intended to provide additional educational support for very low-income and seriously at-risk students. Several streams of Title I funding were re-directed from high-poverty small and rural districts to lower-poverty larger districts when changes to the formulas by which Title I funding is distributed were implemented with No Child Left Behind.